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Stafford Air&Space

The Stafford Air and Space Museum is currently developing a new interactive exhibit that allows guests to select a question on a screen and General Thomas P. Stafford will then appear and answer the question! There will be a list of different questions and the General will have an answer for each one! So, we want to know from all of you if you could sit down with the General, face to face, what question would you like to ask him?

Thank you for your questions, this will help us greatly in developing a list of questions to present to the General and have him answer. We will be taking your questions for this week only! We are very excited to hear your questions for General Stafford!

David Carey

Great idea - perhaps unanswerable but here's one question that came to mind last time I visited:

"There is a lot to take in here - could you pick a couple of your favorite items on display and describe what makes them particularly special to you and the museum?"

LM-12

General Stafford, could you describe for us the rough ride you experienced during the translunar injection burn on Apollo 10?

At what distance did you first spot the Gemini 7 spacecraft from Gemini 6A, and how close did you get during the rendezvous?

Could you talk about the docking bar mirror and your view of the EVA by Gene Cernan on Gemini 9A?

Stafford Air&Space

Great questions! We really want to hear from everyone and what they would ask General Stafford. His missions include Gemini 6A, Gemini 9A, Apollo X, and Apollo Soyuz Test Project.

Tom

General Stafford... can you describe the differences of launching on a Saturn V versus a Saturn IB? Thank you!

4allmankind

I'd be curious to ask the General how long into the GT9 EVA did it take him to realize there was a serious problem. Did he want to call off the rest of Cernan's EVA before the ground did?

Ronpur

General: With the differing atmospheres in Soyuz and Apollo, did it have any effect on your abilities to function? As in more energy in the pure oxygen versus the Soyuz atmosphere.

Tom

General Stafford... in hindsight, do you ever regret not making yourself available to fly on one of the last moon landing missions?

Greggy_D

Who was the best crew member you ever flew with during one of your space missions?

onesmallstep

Even though the LM ascent stage, Snoopy, on your Apollo 10 mission was 'short-fueled' (that is, not capable of achieving orbit after liftoff and rendezvous with the CM), did you or do you still have any regrets coming so close to the lunar surface yet not landing?

Also, the differences between a Titan launch and one on the Saturn V, sometimes referred to by some as the 'old man's rocket' due to its low-g load on the crew?

bwhite1976

General Stafford: You flew four diverse missions with different goals. Is there one that stands out as your favorite? I would imagine Apollo 10 would be hard to surpass, but the linkup with the Soyuz on ASTP and the first rendezvous are also big milestones.

ZeroG

It's a great honor to be able to ask this question, General Stafford!

I would like to know in detail your experience and feelings aboard Snoopy with lunar module staging incident on Apollo 10.

Stafford Air&Space

Thank you all for your questions! We will continue to take your questions while we begin compiling them for the exhibit development! Keep asking!

LM-12

Will the interactive feature be on your museum website?

Stafford Air&Space

At this time, no, the exhibit will only be featured inside the museum. However, we are in talks of including some of the Q&As on the website.

Thanks for asking!

Jurg Bolli

Do you ever dream about spaceflight?

rjurek349

General: you were instrumental in convincing NASA and the engineers to place a TV camera on space missions... not an easy task at the time. The color TV transmissions from Apollo 10 broke world records for audience numbers, and it helped us all to "go along for the ride." I'd be interested to know: why were you so passionate about this topic, and who did you work with to make it a reality?